El Médium

A show of mentalism, hypnosis and stage mediumship by Pablo Raijenstein, reviving the imagery of the old spiritualist parlours at Teatro Victoria in Madrid.

El Médium is a show by Pablo Raijenstein built around the figure of the medium, a figure that for centuries has stood between belief and the need to make sense of what cannot be understood. The production transposes the imagery of the old spiritualist parlours into a contemporary stage language and falls within the circus and magic genre.

On stage, mentalism, hypnosis and stage mediumship are combined with live music and inexplicable phenomena. The performance unfolds around a question that gains weight as it goes: who is performing whom? The symbolism of absence and memory takes shape as the show progresses, and the audience does not simply watch but may become part of what happens.

The show does not seek to explain what exists on the other side, but to raise a question about the presence of what is no longer there. It is staged at Teatro Victoria and is aimed at audiences interested in mentalism and in productions that get the audience involved.